Global Mission - Current Events in Peru
Women's Ensemble - Mission Trip to Peru
Click to read a .pdf of e-mail dated Dec 29, 2008
Click to read a .pdf of e-mail dated Dec 30, 2008 morning
Click to read a .pdf of e-mail dated Dec 30, 2008 evening
Dec 10, 2009 -
The Global Mission Committee is excited to announce that Normandale will offer missionary support to Pastora Dana Nelson starting on January 1, 2009. A Minnesotan graduate of Luther Seminary, Pastora Dana serves Cristo Rey (Christ the King) Church in Lima as the first ELCA missionary to Peru. Pastora Dana is thrilled about the upcoming Christmas visit of our Mission Peru Women’s Ensemble. She has been instrumental in making arrangements for the team to sing in various churches and to join activities with Peruvian youth. She stopped at Normandale several weeks ago, on a Wednesday evening, while in the Twin Cities for a family visit, and met with Pastor Dale, David Clarke (director of Music), and Lorna Wolthoff (accompanist), as well as other team members to get to know them and discuss details of the visit. Missionary support to Pastora Dana will help Normandale nurture our developing relationship with the Lutheran Church of Perú (Iglesia Luterana Evangélica Peruana [ILEP]. Please sign up, as in the past, on the 2009 Mission Support Board located in the Narthex (entry hall) right outside the sanctuary. We pray for your continued support in God’s work of mission.
Click here to view Dana, the church, and other pictures. This jumps to another web-site.
We will continue to support Jim and Carol Sack in their call to serve God in Japan.
Keep the Nelsons, the Sacks, and all missionaries in your
prayers as they bring the Word to those who are strangers
to the Lord.
Susan Hoel
Chair, Global Mission Committee
Global Mission
This matrix puts Global Mission outreach in perspective. It is organized by the two-year Sunday School schedule of emphasizing a "Foreign" ministry, but the Global Mission Committee and other groups actively support the other ministries every year.
| 2006-2008 | 2008-2010 | 2010-2012 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foreign | South America | Africa | Asia |
| Huch'uy Runa, Cusco, Peru | Ntalawanda, Tanzania | LHCB, Dumki, Bangladesh | |
| Local | St. Paul's Hispanic Ministry, Minneapolis | SAYFSM, Twin Cities | Missionary Support: Japan, Central Asia |
Appropriate to Sunday School, each foreign ministry emphasizes children's welfare. Huch'uy Runa provides holistic support to street kids in the Andean tourist town of Cusco. In Ntalawanda we've built a school and provided it with electricity. Lutheran Health Care Bangladesh offers primary medical care and economic development to women and children in southern Bangladesh.
Our local partners work with immigrant families (SAYFSM, Sub-Saharan Youth & Family Services in Minnesota, specifically with African immigrants with HIV) and communities. Our missionary support is local only because the missionaries come from the Cities.
For more information on these local missionaries contact Pastor Dale Howard at Normandale 952-929-1697.
Missionary Support
Normandale is committed to proclaiming Jesus Christ outside of its immediate community through its support of missionary families in other parts of the world. Since 1999, Normandale has supported Jim and Carol Sack in Jim's teaching at Lutheran Seminary in Tokyo and Carol's ministry to the sick and dying with a bedside harp. In 2007 we started supporting missionaries in Central Asia who construct bridges and irrigation projects.
The Global Mission Committee of Normandale selects missionary families that are supported by Global Mission of the ELCA. The missionary's role is to spread the Good News. Our role is to support them financially and through prayer. Do you hear the call? Can you support our missionaries as they spread the Good News of our Savior, Jesus Christ?
My Summer with a Normandale Partner, St. Paul's Lutheran Church
By congregation member Alyssa Telander
I am a junior at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and I have taken several semesters of Spanish. At the beginning of this past summer, I was looking for ways to practice and maintain my Spanish. I knew that Normandale has a developing relationship with St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, which has a large Spanish-speaking membership, and I was able to connect with Pastora Luisa there, who set me up with some conversation partners. I went to St. Paul's twice a week in the summer to meet with two different women to help them with English and to work on my Spanish. It worked really well, and I got so much out of it. I was amazed to see how determined they were to learn English so that they could make a life for themselves and their children here. It was great to be able to help people with something that they are so determined to learn and also to express appreciation for their culture and language by trying to learn about them. I had several conversations with them about issues surrounding immigration and the prejudice they face in America. They also told me stories of their lives in Mexico and how hard and dangerous it was there.
My time at St. Paul's gave me a window into the Hispanic way of life. I have grown to greatly appreciate and respect the vibrancy, community, and endurance that are such big parts of their lives. It is amazing how much you can learn when you step outside of your usual routine, where you are surrounded by people who look and think like you, and listen to the voices of neighbors who are different from us. You learn to value and celebrate the differences as well as to see the similarities between all people. You do not need to know Spanish to be involved at St. Paul's either: many members of the congregation only speak English and some speak both languages.
I was also a summer youth intern this past summer, and I was able to get some of our Normandale youth involved at St. Paul's. Other interns and I went with six junior-highers and high-schoolers to help with St. Paul's VBS (Vacation Bible School). It was challenging at times, but I think that everyone involved had a lot of fun with the kids and learned a little bit about the part of Minneapolis where the church is located (28th Street and 15th Avenue South, still in the Phillips neighborhood). The people who were involved had some good ideas about ways Normandale's relationship with St. Paul's can expand, such as starting a homework help program similar to Reading Buddies at Normandale House. I hope those ideas can continue to be developed. I hope that we will continue to foster our relationship with St. Paul's and that we will continue to learn from each other.
To become involved with St. Paul's, contact Susan Hoel, chair of the Global Mission Committee (skish1157@yahoo.com) or Pastor Dale (dale@normluth.org or 952-929-1697).
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